Every once in a while I’ll have a series of failures occur that couldn’t have been predicted and which weren’t logical at all. Logically, they should never have happened. Like the time that my computer, our DVD player and my car, all failed one after the other in a couple day timeframe. Even odder: for a few days we used a spare DVD player that was so noisy it drove my family crazy and took all the pleasure out of watching movies. I told my sons we should plug back in our old DVD player because if it was going to have reset itself that would have happened already and sure thing, the player which had been completely, brick dead a few days prior worked perfectly once again, and has ever since. My car had to be repaired though, and my computer needed to receive massive massaging to finally get it back on line.
These events may have caused by Retrograde Mercury, a spatial condition caused a few times a year when Earth appears to move faster than the planet Mercury does and according to astrologers, turns a whole lot of earthly events on their head. I’m not a great follower of astrological principles, but an article about this caught my eye. It turned up in the results of internet marketing research I was doing (an odd event all on its own as it was severely out of place). And, as it happens, it turned up just at the tail end of the latest Retrograde Mercury period – which ended yesterday. The full read is good. Here’s an excerpt:
Retrograde Mercury is the most commonly known astrological signature for Murphy’s Law (“If something can go wrong, it will”), and is one of the first features intermediate astrology students learn about. Say it to a seasoned astrologer and you’ll likely get an amused smile and some delightful stories about how things can get quite unexpectedly unhinged.
Computers crash, software develops unexpected glitches, traffic jams ensue, telephone service snarls up, letters get lost on the mail, machinery breaks down, new projects fail. Ah, yes, the trickster Mercury is up to his old pranks again. In fact, at least three times a year for about three weeks each time Mercury has his way with us.
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